President Harding Urges World Readjustment Aid and Harmony
President Harding outlined a broad domestic and international program stressing US aid for global economic rehabilitation, cooperation with Congress, and balanced tariffs, transportation, tax reform, and debt funding. He urged unity between executive and legislative branches while seeking orderly readjustments and relief for starving Russians and a planned aid package.
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Washington
Harding
Congress
Sumiarry
Federal Tariff Commission
Jones Merchant Marine Act
United States
Ninth
Tenth
Eleventh
Yanks Bring Wives From Rhine Arrive Home
The first detachment of American occupation troops from Germany, eleven officers and 600 men, landed on the transport Cantigny. Seventy three German-born wives and eight Rhine babies accompanied the troops aboard the ship.
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New York
Army of Occupation
Germany
Cantigny
Wreck Toll Reaches Twenty Seven At Bryn Athyn
The Reading railway passenger train collision at Bryn Athyn leaves twenty seven dead. Thirteen victims identified, fourteen still missing and presumed killed.
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Philadelphia
Pac
Reading Railway
Bryno Athyn
Latest Market Quotations From U S Bureau Of Markets
Market weakness at close with December roles, Chicago cash quotes include No 2 red winter wheat 1 12, No 2 hard winter 1 10, No 2 mixed corn 0 84, No 2 yellow corn 0 90, oats 2 44. Prices to farmers show variances across Iowa North Dakota and Kansas. Wheat and corn futures fall week to week. cotton down 43 points to 16 90 cents. Potatoes steady to weaker in many markets, onions up and down, apples mixed with Baldwins costly. Live stock mixed, hogs up slight, beef steers down, lambs higher. dairy butter weak with scattered regional price differences.
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Aroun
Lend and Buyin Limited
Chicago
Iowa
North Dakota
Kansan
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Winnipeg
New York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Bullato
Carlot
New
St. Louis
Diay
Timothy
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Omaha
Prairie
Denver Live Stock Market Quiet but Steady
Denver cattle market showed a quieter trend with limited receipts sold without difficulty. Beef cattle were scarce and stock for the most part common, steers quoted at 4.75 to 6.25, heifers around 5. Feeder and stocker trades led activity with steady prices, light feeders in demand. Cattle buyers from packing houses sought best stock, while fat cows remained scarce. Sheep and lamb markets were generally steady with little change and small runs. Overall, prices were steady despite weaker eastern markets and shippers urged to watch conditions.
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Denver
Settle
Orig
Feeder
Atocker
NAME HAS BROUGHT IN LUCK
The name Jane, once unfashionable, is resurging in popularity through royal and saintly lineages. The piece traces Jane across history from English queens to Joan of Arc, noting bursts of use, royal misfortune, and eventual canonizations amid France and Spain.
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Jane
Lord
Dash
Muriel
Jane Grey
France
Jeanne d’Albert
Navarre
Henry IV
Castile
Ferdinand
Isabella
Hapsburg
Louis XII
Jane Frances de Chantal
Saint Frances de Sales
Joan of Arc
Manchester Guardian
Keeping a Quiet Boy and the Thrill Book Trend
Librarians note modern boys prefer action filled books but do not want only thrillers. Many titles are all plot focusing on two super heroes and sold to indulgent parents for quieting children. Classics like Treasure Island and Tom Sawyer remain in demand as evidence against punch fiction sales tactics.
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Son
James
Edward
Kim
Stalky & Co
Punch
Arthur Chapman
The
New York Tribune
Forest Fluid Fuel Uses Waste Lumber for Squid Fuel
Yale professor Ralph C. Hawley reports in Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry that U S forests waste 6 69 billion cubic feet of wood each year this waste could be diverted to produce liquid fuel without reducing current timber supply. He notes annual wood growth could reach 2 703 75 billion cubic feet if lands are restocked but much of the growth remains needed for other forest products and virgin timber removal.
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United States
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Ralph C. Hawley
Yale University
Hawley
New Arithmetic Teaches Us With Apples
A Milwaukee Sentinel note recalls a village school first morning where a teacher asks seven oranges plus eleven, minus five. Children silent until a small pupil explains they always do their sums with apples, highlighting classroom practicality and humor.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Obstreperous Congressman Questioned by Statesman
A statesman asks why constituents should send such an obstreperous man to Congress while pondering why neighbors would defeat him and keep him in his hometown. The dialogue centers on public dissent and local sentiment about political representation.
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Congress
Hog House for 12 Pigs and Sows A Farm Plan
An inexpensive hog house design for sows bred in November and piglets born in March. The 88 by 24 foot frame barn, set on a concrete foundation, features south facing windows for sun, center feeding alley, plank floors for bedding, and raised rails to protect piglets. A concrete outdoor feeding area and well drained site ensure warmth and ventilation for healthy growth before spring pasture.
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William A. Radford
William A. Hadford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Ill
Aise
I Ae
Mooring Mast for Airship at Pensacola Navy Yard
A mooring mast for nonrigid dirigibles at Pensacola Naval Air Station features a lattice steel mast on a concrete base supporting a semicircular inverted arch crutch. The mast rotates in a concrete foot collar, with a rope winch system drawing the airship down to bearing pads via lines and top crutch winches.
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United States Naval Air Station
Pensacola
Fla
Experimenting With Lumber in West Australia
A forest-products laboratory is planned in West Australia to develop into a major institution similar to Madison Wisconsin and McGill Montreal. Research shows abundant native timber suitable for papermaking with a pulping mill not affecting merchantable timber. Currently about 60 percent of felled timber is wasted before it becomes salable lumber.
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West Australia
Madison
Wis
McGill University
Montreal
Canada
Australia
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Wills and the kind-hearted gatekeeper at the theater
The English novelist W G Wills recounted being blocked at a theater door despite a standing invitation. After a proper official granted permission, he left with a touching remark about finding the kind-hearted usher who would not admit him. A separate report notes a continental air express converted into an ambulance. A woman patient traveled from London to Paris with a nurse, lifted into a specially prepared airplane salon for urgent surgery.
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W. G. Wills
Wills
Continental Air
London
Parla
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